Research Program and Theme
Cancer Technology and Data Science | Molecular Measurement
Research Focus
Rashid Bashir’s research group is developing micro and nanoscale sensors for early diagnostics of cancer and infectious diseases. He is very active in bioengineering education and was the principal investigator of the NIH NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer-funded training grant. His research integrates biology and medicine with micro and nanotechnology in two broad areas: how micro/nanotechnology can help solve problems in life sciences (diagnostics and therapeutics) and how life science can help solve issues in micro/nanotechnology (bio-inspired self-assembly). His research projects span from solid-state nanopores to 3D fabrication due to his interest in bionanotechnology, biosensors and bioelectronics, and nanotechnology.
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, 1992
Campus Affiliations
- Dean, Grainger College of Engineering
- W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering
- Professor, Bioengineering
- Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
- Professor, Materials Research Lab
- Professor, Health Care Engineering Systems Center, Coordinated Science Lab
- Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
- Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
- Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
- Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Select Honors and Recognitions
- AIMBE Fellow, 2010
- IEEE Fellow, 2009
- AAAS Fellow, 2011
- APS Fellow, 2012
- IAMBE Fellow, 2015
- BMES Fellow, 2015